Speculative Speculations

Join the hosts as they embark on the reading of another weird speculative fiction novel, this time by China Mieville. The short story for the discussion is The Fate of the Poseidonia by Clare Winger Harris

Join Varsha, Dan, Steve, Chris and Jarrod to wrap up the discussions of the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. This has been an incredible journey. The group discusses the final quarter of the third book Acceptance and some Chris has a questionnaire for us to answer with our closing thoughts about the series! The short story for today is The Comet by W.E.B Du Bois

Join Varsha, Jarrod, Chris and Steve to discuss the third quarter of Acceptance. This discussion takes us through Ch. 19 of the third book of the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. The short story for this discussion is Doom of Principal City by Yefim Zozulya

Join Varsha, Jarrod, Chris and Steve to discuss the second quarter of Acceptance. This discussion takes us up to the end of the section entitled "Range Light" of the third book of the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. The short story for this discussion is Mechanopolis by Miguel de Unamuno.

Varsha, Chris, Steve, Jarrod and Dan discuss the first six chapters of the first part of Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer - the third book of the Southern Reach series. We then proceed to discuss The Elements of Pataphysics by Alfred Jarry - and try to answer the question - was he the OG internet troll? :D

Join Chris, Dan, Jarrod, Steve and Varsha to discuss the final part of Authority - the second book of the Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. The short story for pick for this discussion is The New Overworld by Paul Scheerbart

Varsha, Chris and Jarrod discuss Chapters 16-22 of Authority by Jeff Vandermeer - the second book of the Southern Reach series. Many secrets are revealed and yet many more questions remain unanswered. Join us as we speculate about all the unknowns and gush about the reveals that we encountered in this section. The short story for this discussion is The Triumph of Mechanics by Karl Hans Strobl. Thi...

In this episode we continue our speculations about what the heck is going on with Area X by discussing Chapters 6-15 of Authority - the second book of the Southern Reach Series by Jeff Vandermeer. Our short story pick for the day is Sultana's Dream by Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein Sultana's Dream is available online at https://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/sultana/dream/dream.html Next week...

Join Dan, Chris, Jarrod, Varsha and Steve to discuss Chapters 1-5 of Authority - the second book of the Southern Reach series by Jeff Vandermeer. Our short story selection for today is The Star by H.G. Wells. The short story can be found at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67071 The short story for next week will be Sultana's Dream by Rokheya Shekhawat Hossain. This story is available online a...

In this episode we wrap up not one but two books with our discussion of Ch. 5 of Annihilation, and the short story Liking What you See: A Documentary by Ted Chiang from the short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others. Starting next week, we'll be discussing the second book of the Souther Reach Trilogy - Authority by Jeff Vandermeer, and continuing on with our exploration of Sci Fi s...

In this episode, Varsha, Dan, Jarrod, Steve and Chris discuss Chapters 3 and 4 of Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer. We also discuss the short story Hell is the Absence of God by Ted Chiang from the short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang.

In this episode, Jarrod, Chris, Steve, Dan and Varsha discuss chapter 2 of Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer and the short story Seventy Two Letters by Ted Chiang from the short story collection Stories of your Life and Others.

In this episode we start to switch things up a little bit by beginning our group discussion of Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer with the first chapter. Dan joins us for the Annihilation portion of the episode. We continue on to then discuss Understand by Ted Chiang as we continue our read through of The Story of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang Music - What Happens When We Die by Savfk

In this episode we continue on our SF short story reading journey by discussing The Evolution of Science by Ted Chiang and Nightfall by Asimov. Music - What happens when we die by Savfk

In this episode we discuss the short stories Tower of Babylon and Division by Zero by Ted Chiang from the short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. Music - What Happens When We Die by Savfk

In this first episode of Speculative Speculations, we kick off our reading of short stories with The Story of Your Life from the short story collection Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang. As fans of the movie Arrival, we discuss the story in isolation as well as how it compares to the movie. Music - What Happens When We Die by Savfk